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- 0:01SPEAKER_03: Here we are again! We have 40 media in staff in the lines of Dungeons and Dragons.
- 0:11SPEAKER_03: How are we gonna get back home?
- 0:13SPEAKER_03: We don't know.
- 0:25SPEAKER_03: This is Comic Quest.
- 0:31SPEAKER_03: Alright, and welcome back to another episode of Comic Quest.
- 0:36SPEAKER_03: It is a special episode.
- 0:38SPEAKER_03: Solo, solo app.
- 0:40SPEAKER_03: It's just me and Gareth here today.
- 0:42SPEAKER_03: And thank God that we don't have those loud, brash Canadians, huh?
- 0:47SPEAKER_03: This is nice already, it just feels nice.
- 0:51SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah, there might be still be a bit of chaos kicking around, but it won't be Canadian chaos.
- 0:55SPEAKER_03: I know that.
- 0:56SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 0:56SPEAKER_03: So we're not recording uh bad today, but that's not because bad is a bad venue.
- 1:01SPEAKER_03: No, it's uh it's the opposite of bad.
- 1:03SPEAKER_03: Aye.
- 1:03SPEAKER_03: Bad's a great venue.
- 1:05SPEAKER_03: Uh it's a great venue to see uh a whole variety of different art forms.
- 1:11SPEAKER_03: Such as?
- 1:11SPEAKER_03: Well they do live podcasts.
- 1:13SPEAKER_03: Oh.
- 1:13SPEAKER_03: They do DJ sets.
- 1:15SPEAKER_03: The best live podcasts.
- 1:16SPEAKER_03: Exactly.
- 1:17SPEAKER_03: DJ sets, buskin, they've got uh live music, they do live comedy.
- 1:23SPEAKER_03: What don't they do?
- 1:24SPEAKER_03: And what don't they do well?
- 1:26SPEAKER_03: Exactly.
- 1:26SPEAKER_03: Well they do pizza as well.
- 1:27SPEAKER_03: You can get class, class, yeah.
- 1:29SPEAKER_03: If you're looking for someone to go out in Glasgow, you know, it's gotta be bad.
- 1:34SPEAKER_03: Or you can try the sister venue, Blackfriars, which is a really more of a comedy hotspot and it is absolutely booming right now.
- 1:40SPEAKER_03: It's becoming the place to be, really, in Scottish comedy, I would say.
- 1:44SPEAKER_03: Exactly.
- 1:45SPEAKER_03: So make sure you check it out.
- 1:46SPEAKER_03: That brings us to this episode.
- 1:48SPEAKER_03: In the last episode, what happened was you fought the half dragon primeval.
- 1:54SPEAKER_03: The big bad, yeah, the big bad.
- 1:56SPEAKER_03: We saw Tom Stade do sexy sexy maths.
- 1:59SPEAKER_03: That I'm still, I'm still just going, how did he do that?
- 2:03SPEAKER_03: Like, of all the episodes that we've done so far, I didn't think he had that in the locker.
- 2:07SPEAKER_03: I had no idea he could do that.
- 2:10SPEAKER_03: There was a moment when he was just casually doing it and Kate was like somewhat backing him up.
- 2:15SPEAKER_03: You and me were just staring at each other, like, what is happening?
- 2:18SPEAKER_03: What is going on here?
- 2:20SPEAKER_03: He he he done great uh and he's also killed Derek Clittlehammer.
- 2:24SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 2:25SPEAKER_03: And then it was gonna happen though.
- 2:26SPEAKER_03: That's true.
- 2:27SPEAKER_03: As soon as he agreed to come on that trip, he was counting fodder.
- 2:30SPEAKER_03: He really was.
- 2:31SPEAKER_03: He was fodder.
- 2:32SPEAKER_03: Well, we'll see if that comes back to bite you at any point.
- 2:34SPEAKER_03: And then you took on primeval and you won.
- 2:37SPEAKER_03: Fairly easily.
- 2:38SPEAKER_03: I think that should be in there.
- 2:39SPEAKER_03: Fairly easily.
- 2:40SPEAKER_03: I think I was more than the tom.
- 2:42SPEAKER_03: It really was that that fucking rod that he keeps going on about.
- 2:45SPEAKER_03: Actually, I was like, that's a that's a I'm glad we had the immovable rod.
- 2:49SPEAKER_03: Uh so he smashed it and then you cut the penis off of Yeah, for proof.
- 2:54SPEAKER_03: For proof.
- 2:55SPEAKER_03: You need to bring something back.
- 2:57SPEAKER_03: I don't think I suggested penis.
- 2:58SPEAKER_03: That's that's to me, I can I can't remember.
- 3:00SPEAKER_03: That sounds like a fanny move.
- 3:02SPEAKER_03: That sounds like a yeah, we should take his car back.
- 3:04SPEAKER_03: Well, Fanny bashed his head in and then I think you all so the head was just not an option.
- 3:11SPEAKER_03: Was that an option?
- 3:12SPEAKER_03: So I think because of that, that's very second point of call.
- 3:15SPEAKER_03: Well, if we can do head, obviously it's knob.
- 3:18SPEAKER_03: Obviously.
- 3:18SPEAKER_03: Uh and as you were cutting the penis off, uh a bunch of guards uh stormed into the the lighthouse where you all were and knocked you out, knocked Fanny out, and wrestled Bill and Shawn Michaels into a jail cart.
- 3:34SPEAKER_03: You were put in your own jail cart.
- 3:36SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 3:37SPEAKER_03: So now you're knocked out and on your own.
- 3:40SPEAKER_03: Sucked.
- 3:41SPEAKER_03: As well, you join this so er I'll I'll explain what you're kinda in.
- 3:45SPEAKER_03: So basically it's like a kind of it's a cage on wheels, effectively.
- 3:50SPEAKER_03: Kind of four feet wide, about six foot long, and then about seven foot tall.
- 3:55SPEAKER_03: How is this thing powered?
- 3:56SPEAKER_03: Engine or horse?
- 3:57SPEAKER_03: So that I was it Okay.
- 3:59SPEAKER_03: This is good to be.
- 4:01SPEAKER_03: No, no, you you've seen where I'm going.
- 4:02SPEAKER_03: So it's powered because it's been pulled along by a giant boar.
- 4:07SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I was gonna say horse was too normal.
- 4:10SPEAKER_03: But it's a that would be too normal for DD.
- 4:12SPEAKER_03: Yeah, a giant giant boar.
- 4:13SPEAKER_03: Giant boar, which has been Oh, I've just had an idea.
- 4:17SPEAKER_03: Well, you're knocked out.
- 4:18SPEAKER_03: I've just yeah, I know I'm at a knocked out right now, but oh brother.
- 4:24SPEAKER_03: You I talk to animals, don't you?
- 4:26SPEAKER_02: No, I don't want to talk.
- 4:27SPEAKER_03: Um I've got now I've got two ideas.
- 4:32SPEAKER_03: Not uh wild shape.
- 4:34SPEAKER_03: I could bore it up.
- 4:35SPEAKER_03: Well, that hits another interesting point that I'll come on to quickly.
- 4:39SPEAKER_03: Jesus.
- 4:40SPEAKER_03: I'll just explain to you as well.
- 4:41SPEAKER_03: You've just been sat in your gaff last night going, then he's gonna try and do this, and I'll count and I'm like Well done.
- 4:48SPEAKER_03: Uh you've read you've read me well, Farley.
- 4:50SPEAKER_03: I want you to succeed.
- 4:51SPEAKER_03: Oh, I've a lot for this attack.
- 4:53SPEAKER_03: You so think I'm against you and I'm trying to fuck your plans.
- 4:56SPEAKER_03: I think that's DD lore, just as going back as an age old time.
- 5:00SPEAKER_03: The the the DM is always trying to fuck you.
- 5:03SPEAKER_03: That's just truth.
- 5:04SPEAKER_03: He is not trying to progress the game with the story.
- 5:08SPEAKER_03: That's all bollocks.
- 5:09SPEAKER_03: He's just trying to make as difficult a time for his players as possible.
- 5:14SPEAKER_03: I just want you to succeed.
- 5:16SPEAKER_03: But uh what is who's I don't know if you would say right.
- 5:20SPEAKER_03: He's not riding it.
- 5:20SPEAKER_03: It's like a so your cage is kind of like a carriage and he's sat on top of it, yeah, uh steering and driving the thing.
- 5:27SPEAKER_03: Uh and that guy is a bug bear warrior.
- 5:31SPEAKER_03: A bugbear warrior.
- 5:33SPEAKER_03: Uh-huh.
- 5:33SPEAKER_03: So he's kind of he's almost like a kind of goblin-y kind of ock looking thing.
- 5:38SPEAKER_03: Oh nice.
- 5:39SPEAKER_03: So he's and he's he's the one in control.
- 5:41SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 5:42SPEAKER_03: And then he's got two guards on horses behind him and two in front of him.
- 5:47SPEAKER_03: So he's he's just kind of in charge of that.
- 5:49SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 5:50SPEAKER_03: So you're knocked out.
- 5:52SPEAKER_03: Uh also you've not had the time to do like a long or a short rest since your battle.
- 5:59SPEAKER_03: So you will have I think you used up all your wild shapes, and I think you've only got maybe two or f two you got your first level spell slots?
- 6:10SPEAKER_03: I used Yeah, I used I definitely used Wild Shape once, because I want I just I went to bear, didn't I?
- 6:18SPEAKER_03: I went full bear.
- 6:19SPEAKER_03: You went from bear and then you turned into an eagle.
- 6:22SPEAKER_03: So I did do the eagle, I can't even deny that.
- 6:24SPEAKER_03: Fuck.
- 6:25SPEAKER_03: So I've only got one of them left.
- 6:26SPEAKER_03: Or is that both?
- 6:27SPEAKER_03: I think you're bought your out.
- 6:28SPEAKER_03: Ah, shit on it.
- 6:30SPEAKER_03: That's fucking pish.
- 6:32SPEAKER_03: I presented you a couple of options here.
- 6:34SPEAKER_03: I like this.
- 6:35SPEAKER_03: This makes me feel like you do want me to see it.
- 6:37SPEAKER_03: You hear you kinda and you're in a dreamlike state, but you kinda hear them over talk talking over, and you kinda work out where they say you're going, but they say it's gonna take you eight hours to get there.
- 6:49SPEAKER_03: Fuck.
- 6:50SPEAKER_03: So I will just tell you some game mechanics quite quickly.
- 6:54SPEAKER_03: You can do a short rest, which is like two hours, and that will regain you one wild shape.
- 6:59SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 6:59SPEAKER_03: You can do a long rest, which is the whole eight hours, but you'll be back up to full strength.
- 7:05SPEAKER_03: The issue is whenever they're taking you, you'll be uh blissfully unaware of how to get there, where the fuck we are.
- 7:13SPEAKER_03: And then when you wake up, you will be fully ready to go, but you will be in a position that they want you to be in.
- 7:19SPEAKER_03: Here's the thing.
- 7:21SPEAKER_03: How much can I really drink in when it's eight hours away?
- 7:27SPEAKER_03: It's I think I already know everything I need to know.
- 7:30SPEAKER_03: Far.
- 7:31SPEAKER_03: We are far away from where we were.
- 7:34SPEAKER_03: Like, if we were going, I'd say max an hour away.
- 7:40SPEAKER_03: I'm like, maybe you could go, and then it was a left, and then it was the second round of uh the roundabout.
- 7:47SPEAKER_03: The second the second line, then it was a right, then we went off for 500 yards, then it was another.
- 7:52SPEAKER_03: For eight hours, finally, I mean I ain't trying to fucking track shit at this point.
- 7:56SPEAKER_03: I am very happy to succumb to my situation and where Don is and get myself a very long list.
- 8:05SPEAKER_03: I want to do the long rest, man.
- 8:07SPEAKER_03: Because what the fu I know what I need to know in eight hours.
- 8:10SPEAKER_03: Well, you could do the short list and maybe do it.
- 8:12SPEAKER_03: But then that's just half that's half ours, in it.
- 8:15SPEAKER_03: Yeah, but then you get a wild shape, you can maybe try and escape.
- 8:18SPEAKER_03: A wild shape.
- 8:19SPEAKER_03: Oh my god.
- 8:20SPEAKER_03: See, that says everything about Gareth that just at no point, at no point did I even have the thought of I should try and get out of this.
- 8:32SPEAKER_03: I just my whole thing is just, well, that's happened.
- 8:37SPEAKER_03: We're in it now.
- 8:39SPEAKER_03: Commit.
- 8:40SPEAKER_03: I might as well get a big sleep.
- 8:43SPEAKER_03: And then, hey, I've got to sleep out of it.
- 8:45SPEAKER_03: Weirdly, a nice sleep in the back of that cage.
- 8:49SPEAKER_03: Um, oh fuck.
- 8:51SPEAKER_03: Why didn't I think about the option of escaping?
- 8:55SPEAKER_03: It feels like I've been led down a path.
- 8:57SPEAKER_03: We can edit this out.
- 8:58SPEAKER_03: No, you can ask.
- 9:00SPEAKER_03: I wanna I now have changed my answer.
- 9:01SPEAKER_03: Well, I want to change to short rest, and I'm then gonna see if I can get out of this.
- 9:07SPEAKER_03: Well, I've I've prepared for all of it.
- 9:09SPEAKER_03: Either option.
- 9:10SPEAKER_03: So whatever you want to do, there's no right or wrong answer.
- 9:13SPEAKER_03: I just wanted to make sure you're fully aware of now.
- 9:15SPEAKER_03: Succumb, succumb, go with my gun.
- 9:16SPEAKER_03: Succumb.
- 9:17SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 9:17SPEAKER_03: Succumb to the what's happening to me.
- 9:20SPEAKER_03: So as you are asleep, visited by I won't say a friend, not an acquaintance, not an adversary, because he's disappointed in you, but he always loves you.
- 9:30SPEAKER_03: This guy again.
- 9:31SPEAKER_03: It's God.
- 9:32SPEAKER_03: Oh, fuck.
- 9:33SPEAKER_03: I hate this fucking guy.
- 9:35SPEAKER_03: He hates me.
- 9:36SPEAKER_03: He hates me.
- 9:37SPEAKER_03: He has punished me more than anyone else in this game.
- 9:42SPEAKER_03: So God is there and he says, bastard.
- 9:45SPEAKER_03: Hello, Don.
- 9:46SPEAKER_03: Yeah, hello God.
- 9:48SPEAKER_03: I I feel like we've got off on the wrong foot here.
- 9:50SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 9:51SPEAKER_03: You can say that again.
- 9:52SPEAKER_03: We don't like each other.
- 9:54SPEAKER_03: I I love you.
- 9:55SPEAKER_03: Do you?
- 9:56SPEAKER_03: I do.
- 9:56SPEAKER_03: Do you?
- 9:57SPEAKER_03: I do.
- 9:57SPEAKER_03: I love all my children.
- 9:58SPEAKER_03: What is it?
- 9:59SPEAKER_03: Well, I just thought, listen, you're in the back, you're in a cage.
- 10:04SPEAKER_03: Okay?
- 10:05SPEAKER_03: Should we maybe have a think about the choices and the actions that you have made that have led to you getting in this cage?
- 10:12SPEAKER_03: So we cannot get in the cage again, Don.
- 10:14SPEAKER_03: I like my choices though.
- 10:15SPEAKER_03: I don't you're in a c do you like being in a cage?
- 10:19SPEAKER_03: No, but so I feel pretty inevitable.
- 10:24SPEAKER_03: I don't why would that be inevitable, Don?
- 10:26SPEAKER_03: This is the first this is the first peek into the character work that I've been doing behind the scenes here.
- 10:34SPEAKER_03: Here's the first peak, the first little peek behind the curtain of who Don is.
- 10:40SPEAKER_02: Because I feel voice breaks.
- 10:45SPEAKER_01: I feel like I've spent my whole life inside of a cage.
- 10:51SPEAKER_02: Get me the fucking globe now.
- 10:54SPEAKER_02: Give me the globe now.
- 10:55SPEAKER_02: Don is looking down at the ground in this fucking piece of shit cage.
- 11:02SPEAKER_02: Just he's dead.
- 11:04SPEAKER_03: You've seen Dawn search for booze, you've seen Dawn be kind of useless, you've seen Dawn trying to explain what a fucking Natchez.
- 11:12SPEAKER_03: We've seen Dawn in a bunch of situations.
- 11:14SPEAKER_03: This is the first time Don looks genuinely, sincerely sad.
- 11:20SPEAKER_03: No, okay.
- 11:20SPEAKER_03: He's sad.
- 11:22SPEAKER_03: So why do you feel you were born in a cage, Don?
- 11:26SPEAKER_02: I don't feel like I was born in a cage.
- 11:27SPEAKER_02: I feel like I've fucked up my life and my life has become a cage.
- 11:33SPEAKER_03: Well, that's very good.
- 11:34SPEAKER_03: That's you're you're you're self-actualizing here.
- 11:37SPEAKER_03: So how do you think you ended up in the cage?
- 11:41SPEAKER_03: Bad choices.
- 11:42SPEAKER_03: And what were those choices?
- 11:44SPEAKER_03: Oh, how far are we going back?
- 11:47SPEAKER_03: Well, how far back do you want to go?
- 11:49SPEAKER_03: What's your earliest memory, Don?
- 11:53SPEAKER_03: My earliest memory.
- 11:55SPEAKER_03: Don is reaching as far back in his memory as he can.
- 11:59SPEAKER_03: He's trying to search, going, surely I have something from like childhood.
- 12:03SPEAKER_03: And he's like, I can't there's nothing there.
- 12:05SPEAKER_03: I can't fucking I don't know.
- 12:08SPEAKER_03: So God says, Would you like me to show you Don?
- 12:11SPEAKER_03: Please.
- 12:12SPEAKER_03: So Don and God turn.
- 12:16SPEAKER_03: You can't see God, because God's very tall.
- 12:18SPEAKER_03: So you just you're just kinda Of course.
- 12:19SPEAKER_03: I I I I I thought that about God.
- 12:21SPEAKER_03: It'd be weird if God was under five foot.
- 12:23SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so you're basically you can you can kinda see one of his knees and that's that's as much as you're getting.
- 12:29SPEAKER_03: Talking shit about my childhood to God's knees.
- 12:33SPEAKER_03: So he turns and before you is the scene in a forest, and there is a young a young boy and he's running around the forest.
- 12:43SPEAKER_03: Do I recognise this boy?
- 12:45SPEAKER_03: You see something very familiar, almost like a younger's you.
- 12:49SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 12:50SPEAKER_03: And this boy does a big jump and then he turns into an eagle and flies high up into a tree.
- 12:58SPEAKER_03: Perfectly normal.
- 13:00SPEAKER_03: That's all about board.
- 13:02SPEAKER_03: He turns and he jumps, turns into an eagle, and flies up into a tree.
- 13:07SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 13:07SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 13:08SPEAKER_03: Okay, that's t terrifying.
- 13:10SPEAKER_03: That would not be what Don thought his fucking first memory was.
- 13:14SPEAKER_03: Don is creeped out by this.
- 13:16SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so you creeped out, Don?
- 13:18SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 13:19SPEAKER_03: Who is that?
- 13:20SPEAKER_03: That's you?
- 13:21SPEAKER_03: It can't be.
- 13:21SPEAKER_03: I'm not a fucking half man, half-eagle boy.
- 13:24SPEAKER_03: Well, you did you not just turn into a giant eagle and cut the penis off a half dragon?
- 13:29SPEAKER_03: Yeah, but that's in this world.
- 13:31SPEAKER_03: And you is this the first time you've been in this world?
- 13:34SPEAKER_02: Yes.
- 13:35SPEAKER_02: Are you sure?
- 13:36SPEAKER_03: God don't fuck with me.
- 13:38SPEAKER_03: I'm not fucking with you.
- 13:39SPEAKER_03: I would never fuck with you.
- 13:41SPEAKER_03: I really wish that it was how God talked.
- 13:43SPEAKER_00: I ain't fucking with you, my mate.
- 13:48SPEAKER_02: Am I?
- 13:50SPEAKER_02: Have I been here before?
- 13:52SPEAKER_02: Was I here as a child?
- 13:54SPEAKER_02: Certainly looks that way, doesn't it?
- 13:56SPEAKER_03: Dawn is fucking perplexed.
- 14:00SPEAKER_03: Uh could I roll.
- 14:02SPEAKER_03: I mean, I don't even know what it would be under.
- 14:04SPEAKER_03: Um history, insight.
- 14:07SPEAKER_03: Insight.
- 14:08SPEAKER_03: Insight for sure.
- 14:09SPEAKER_03: Uh so that's also plus two.
- 14:11SPEAKER_03: Are you wanting to see if God's lying or if this is a trick or something?
- 14:15SPEAKER_03: Not even that if he's lying, just trying to get a bit more of a grasp on the understanding of this.
- 14:22SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 14:22SPEAKER_03: Three.
- 14:24SPEAKER_03: And it's a three.
- 14:26SPEAKER_03: Plus two.
- 14:27SPEAKER_03: Five, actually.
- 14:28SPEAKER_03: Your fucking cheeky tone of three.
- 14:30SPEAKER_03: So as you kind of turn away from it, you do start to realise that was a real memory.
- 14:36SPEAKER_03: Like you now remember that.
- 14:38SPEAKER_03: I'm starting to piece it in, yeah.
- 14:39SPEAKER_03: You're like, well, yeah, I do remember being in the forest and I could turn into an eagle and jump into trees and stuff.
- 14:45SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 14:45SPEAKER_03: But you know, I'm starting to I'm starting to remember it.
- 14:49SPEAKER_02: Holy shit, I'm I'm from here.
- 14:52SPEAKER_02: Yes, Don.
- 14:54SPEAKER_02: But how okay, well how did I how did I end up in the other world?
- 15:00SPEAKER_03: See, this is what I mean about the choices you make, Don.
- 15:04SPEAKER_03: Oh, I fucked up again, didn't I?
- 15:06SPEAKER_02: Stupid.
- 15:07SPEAKER_03: Stupid now turns and he kinda you think he waves his hand, you can't see his hand, so you just kinda see like a shadow uh kind of move over, and then it goes into another scene, which I'm gonna leave up to you to describe.
- 15:26SPEAKER_03: Oh shit, the bird, that's massive.
- 15:29SPEAKER_03: Um He's still gotta be quite young then if it was forgotten initially, do you know what I mean?
- 15:38SPEAKER_03: Um so I think it's and I can only really give loose here some sort of r uh running away from parents or guardians uh and like they're like on a fucking walk or whatever, and Don's off by himself, on the off the beaten track, and is just in his natural quisitive, childlike sort of state, is fucking around by himself and in some way ends up in as the youth refer to IRL in real in real life.
- 16:17SPEAKER_03: But I don't know how the fuck he could get there.
- 16:19SPEAKER_03: Not a clue.
- 16:20SPEAKER_03: You don't know how.
- 16:21SPEAKER_03: Nah.
- 16:22SPEAKER_03: Do you think he was maybe chasing something?
- 16:24SPEAKER_03: I'm happy to go with that.
- 16:25SPEAKER_03: But how but is there like a is it like a portal?
- 16:29SPEAKER_03: So I would say it's the smoke again.
- 16:32SPEAKER_03: So the smoke that kicked Let's keep it in the lore, yeah.
- 16:34SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 16:35SPEAKER_03: So he's chasing something, some weird little creature he's never seen before in the woods, on a walk with his parents or guardians.
- 16:42SPEAKER_03: Uh, and yeah, he's off by himself chasing this little creature, and just walk and just he sees the creature go into the smoke, he doesn't even think, just guns it straight into the smoke, trying to follow the creature.
- 16:56SPEAKER_02: Ends up IRL.
- 16:58SPEAKER_02: And Canada.
- 16:59SPEAKER_03: In Canada, of course.
- 17:01SPEAKER_03: That's where else would the smoke?
- 17:03SPEAKER_03: Fucking Toronto.
- 17:07SPEAKER_03: Is that okay?
- 17:08SPEAKER_03: Is that good for the lore of DD?
- 17:10SPEAKER_03: Is that okay?
- 17:10SPEAKER_03: Yeah, no, it's just at the end of the day, it's your character, so you go to her, it's your character.
- 17:14SPEAKER_03: I want to keep it real.
- 17:15SPEAKER_03: I'd uh yeah, as I my instinct was portal.
- 17:18SPEAKER_03: And you went, no, let's keep it with the smoke, mate.
- 17:20SPEAKER_03: Well, it's uh we've put the smoke out though.
- 17:23SPEAKER_03: No, you're right.
- 17:24SPEAKER_03: Aye, so Don now knows he's from this land.
- 17:28SPEAKER_03: Big he's clearly always been a druid, he's always had these possibilities, and now God goes, do you see how you've wasted your potential?
- 17:36SPEAKER_03: Don starts to cry.
- 17:39SPEAKER_00: I fucked it all up.
- 17:41SPEAKER_03: Well, there's no need to cry.
- 17:43SPEAKER_03: Let's let's not.
- 17:45SPEAKER_03: I fucked it all up, God.
- 17:48SPEAKER_03: How am I fucking meaning?
- 17:50SPEAKER_03: Well, yeah, there's no need to cry though, let's not.
- 17:53SPEAKER_03: This is You fucking made me cry.
- 17:56SPEAKER_03: You made yourself cry.
- 17:57SPEAKER_01: You made me cry.
- 17:59SPEAKER_03: I'm God, I don't make you do anything.
- 18:00SPEAKER_03: You have free will.
- 18:06SPEAKER_03: You have free will.
- 18:07SPEAKER_03: Shut up.
- 18:08SPEAKER_03: Alright, I'm sorry.
- 18:10SPEAKER_03: God now goes, so you started doing comedy, and he waves his hand and it's Don't.
- 18:15SPEAKER_03: So we feel that scans is very real.
- 18:17SPEAKER_03: A lost soul in Toronto.
- 18:20SPEAKER_03: Where the fuck else would you turn?
- 18:22SPEAKER_03: Comedy.
- 18:22SPEAKER_03: This is Don's first ever gig.
- 18:24SPEAKER_03: Do you want to uh tell me tell me about it?
- 18:27SPEAKER_03: Uh Gong Show.
- 18:29SPEAKER_03: Gong Show.
- 18:29SPEAKER_03: It's a Gong Show.
- 18:31SPEAKER_03: Uh at a good club in Canada, Yuck Yucks, or should we call them Tuk Tux?
- 18:35SPEAKER_03: Because we've been we've been kind of changing little details.
- 18:38SPEAKER_03: So he's at a premier venue on a very low-end night.
- 18:44SPEAKER_03: Dawn goes up, does a couple of one-liners, uh does not go well.
- 18:50SPEAKER_03: He sees uh two cards go up from the audience.
- 18:54SPEAKER_03: If you get all three audience card members go up, you're gonged off.
- 18:58SPEAKER_03: He sees two of them go up.
- 19:00SPEAKER_03: Dawn just decides look, this is already me taking a shot uh at something new in my life.
- 19:06SPEAKER_03: It's not going well.
- 19:08SPEAKER_03: Plan A did not go to fucking plan.
- 19:10SPEAKER_03: I might as well chuck out a Hail Mary.
- 19:12SPEAKER_03: So Don just makes one joke about the Prime Minister at that time and just shares a view.
- 19:19SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 19:20SPEAKER_03: And he sees that one of the people holding the cards, he sees the card like moving and he goes, the cun's laughing.
- 19:27SPEAKER_03: That guy's laughing.
- 19:28SPEAKER_03: And then he s shares another view about just what's going on, and he sees the other card laughing, and in fact, he sees one card go down, and then the other card goes down, and he just keeps sharing these sort of political sort of views, and the place starts to go fucking wild.
- 19:45SPEAKER_03: And Dawn goes, Oh, this is who I should be.
- 19:48SPEAKER_03: I should be this politically minded buffoon.
- 19:52SPEAKER_03: And people really pick up on that and they they like him, his smart, dumb guy sort of act.
- 19:59SPEAKER_03: Beats the gong, wins the cheer off on the night, and Don is he's in it now, he's in this world.
- 20:07SPEAKER_03: He he goes, This is what I should do, I should be a comedian.
- 20:10SPEAKER_03: So it was all going so well.
- 20:11SPEAKER_03: You find it felt like you belonged in a world you didn't belong in.
- 20:14SPEAKER_03: It didn't last though, did it, Don?
- 20:16SPEAKER_03: No, we fell too close to the sun.
- 20:18SPEAKER_03: And then God throws something down at you, and it is a review.
- 20:25SPEAKER_00: Bennett.
- 20:28SPEAKER_00: It's our old friend.
- 20:30SPEAKER_00: TV Bennett.
- 20:36SPEAKER_03: Yeah, well, give him a different name.
- 20:38SPEAKER_03: It's uh it's a review by Fennel.
- 20:42SPEAKER_03: Ben Stenet.
- 20:44SPEAKER_03: Ben Stennet.
- 20:45SPEAKER_03: Wow, I wonder if I'm gonna be able to decode that fucking Wow, how do you come up with it?
- 20:52SPEAKER_03: It's Ben Stenet's review from the website Hortle.
- 21:01SPEAKER_03: I think you went right, we'll change his name.
- 21:03SPEAKER_03: Come on, an animate and all that.
- 21:05SPEAKER_03: Right, so Ben Tennett.
- 21:08SPEAKER_03: Ben Stenet.
- 21:09SPEAKER_03: Stenet from Hortle.
- 21:12SPEAKER_03: Hortle.
- 21:13SPEAKER_03: Yeah, he hated Don.
- 21:14SPEAKER_03: He hated Don.
- 21:16SPEAKER_03: He really didn't like Don at all.
- 21:17SPEAKER_03: What did he say about Don?
- 21:18SPEAKER_02: I think the kindest, let's start with it, the kindest thing he says is he does acknowledge that people were laughing, but he he just shits on his whole sort of uh his soul his whole sort of gimmick and his whole his whole sort of act of going the headline could be Don Baldree pretends to be a smart guy in a dumb world.
- 21:51SPEAKER_02: But he's actually a dumb guy in a smart world.
- 21:55SPEAKER_02: Sound like shit ton of Subpar.
- 22:02SPEAKER_02: Subpar.
- 22:03SPEAKER_02: So yeah.
- 22:04SPEAKER_03: Because I always think like if someone if someone just outright calls you like shit you can almost you can almost pad ah well comedy subjective taste.
- 22:16SPEAKER_03: If they just genuinely critique nah like on all fronts, this is rubbish.
- 22:21SPEAKER_03: It's it's more that sort of angle.
- 22:23SPEAKER_03: It's more just I don't care what sort of comedy you like, this isn't comedy.
- 22:28SPEAKER_03: It's subpar.
- 22:29SPEAKER_03: So Don's reading that and you can you see remember this, and then another kind of image comes across to you, it's Dawn sat alone at the bar reading reading the review and just sinking drinks.
- 22:43SPEAKER_03: That's maybe where the love of booze came from.
- 22:45SPEAKER_03: Yes.
- 22:46SPEAKER_03: Yes.
- 22:47SPEAKER_03: So it's just Dawn at the bar, just going drink after drink after drink.
- 22:52SPEAKER_03: Even the bartender's like, look, you you might be the only one in here.
- 22:56SPEAKER_03: You might be the only one keeping us in business right now.
- 22:58SPEAKER_03: But I feel like as a fellow man on this earth, at some point morally I should step in and go, This kind of should stop.
- 23:06SPEAKER_03: And then you see Dawn.
- 23:07SPEAKER_03: Maybe it should be like a fun little like sort of montage of like other people were in in and out.
- 23:14SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 23:14SPEAKER_03: But Don's just in the same spot, just neck and drink.
- 23:17SPEAKER_03: So it's like obviously a passage of time.
- 23:19SPEAKER_03: He comes back in here every day, first thing, grabs his seat at the and then everyone else comes and goes, Don just drinks in there all day, leaves.
- 23:28SPEAKER_03: First thing in the morning comes back in, takes his seat, drinks all day, leaves.
- 23:32SPEAKER_03: He's just on a loop.
- 23:33SPEAKER_03: And then the last thing we see is Don on stage at the Chuckle Bucket and he's doing a joke about the Prime Minister, but that person hasn't been the Prime Minister in 20 years.
- 23:47SPEAKER_03: Oh, that's very good.
- 23:49SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 23:50SPEAKER_03: That's the last joke he wrote.
- 23:52SPEAKER_03: The last joke he wrote.
- 23:53SPEAKER_03: Definitely I mean at a push, early 90s.
- 23:56SPEAKER_03: Aye.
- 23:57SPEAKER_03: So he's talking about Bill Clinton to a group of very confused students.
- 24:02SPEAKER_03: In a different country.
- 24:04SPEAKER_03: In a different country.
- 24:05SPEAKER_03: Not even in Canada now.
- 24:07SPEAKER_03: So different country.
- 24:08SPEAKER_03: Politicians that are 20, 30 years old in reference point.
- 24:12SPEAKER_03: Yeah, to a bunch of fucking freshers who are like, what the fuck is this?
- 24:16SPEAKER_03: They're all going, Is is that the guy from the Epstein files?
- 24:20SPEAKER_03: Uh Dawn just put Dawn's on stage, just dying.
- 24:24SPEAKER_03: Just gives the one big ah looks up, and he just goes, in the in the real moment in Don's life, he just goes, you know, this was this was really funny.
- 24:36SPEAKER_02: It really was.
- 24:38SPEAKER_02: But it's not now.
- 24:41SPEAKER_03: And he almost remembers that feeling of his first gong show when he made that choice to go off plan A and go to plan B and it fucking all panned out for him.
- 24:53SPEAKER_02: He's on this stage at the choco bucket to a bunch of confused, not laughing students, and he goes, I'll change it up again.
- 25:01SPEAKER_02: I'll share another view and I'll win him.
- 25:05SPEAKER_02: And Dawn just changes the pace, shares a view, and Don just feels just impact on his chest.
- 25:13SPEAKER_02: It's an egg.
- 25:16SPEAKER_02: He looks down and just sees just yoke dripping off his old leather jacket and old shirt.
- 25:22SPEAKER_02: And he goes, Yeah, it didn't work.
- 25:25SPEAKER_03: Don puts the mic back in the mic stand, walks off stage.
- 25:29SPEAKER_03: And then Fanny Bigwind walks on stage and goes, See what he was trying to say is because it's not your balls and it's not your ass.
- 25:38SPEAKER_03: It does make sense.
- 25:41SPEAKER_03: It so does.
- 25:42SPEAKER_03: I stand by that.
- 25:43SPEAKER_03: It's the same use of language.
- 25:44SPEAKER_03: I stand by it.
- 25:45SPEAKER_03: Motherface and the Nature is the same.
- 25:48SPEAKER_03: I don't know what you would call it, granted, but it's the same.
- 25:53SPEAKER_03: Anyway.
- 25:54SPEAKER_03: Now you've woken up and you realise you're in a massive city.
- 26:00SPEAKER_03: You're still in the cage.
- 26:01SPEAKER_03: The guards and the horses they've kind of trailed off to go up to and you see them heading towards what looks like a massive kind of palace.
- 26:09SPEAKER_03: Oh wow.
- 26:10SPEAKER_03: And all that the only person they've left you with is this Bugbear Warrior and his giant boar.
- 26:17SPEAKER_03: But you are now back up to full health, full everything.
- 26:21SPEAKER_03: Good.
- 26:21SPEAKER_03: You you can you're ready to rumble, but you are in this cage.
- 26:25SPEAKER_03: That's good news.
- 26:26SPEAKER_03: The Bugbear Warrior has got a eyes on you, and as you have a look around, you are kind of like it looks almost like they're kind of near the entrance of this city.
- 26:35SPEAKER_03: This is a massive walled city, and you're kinda at the stables, and as you look across, you realize there is a lot of guards and other bugbear kind of warriors to like saddles and stuff on their kind of their mounts.
- 26:50SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 26:50SPEAKER_03: You get giant balls and that.
- 26:51SPEAKER_03: So there's a lot of guards and stuff around.
- 26:54SPEAKER_03: I'm just about to you know okay, they're already around or they're about to be around.
- 26:58SPEAKER_03: So they're in within iShop.
- 27:01SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
- 27:01SPEAKER_03: So 50 to 100 yards away.
- 27:04SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 27:05SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 27:05SPEAKER_03: So if I was to make a move, n now is the time because I'm about to be.
- 27:10SPEAKER_03: Can I ask one question?
- 27:11SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 27:12SPEAKER_03: And it's a big one.
- 27:13SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 27:14SPEAKER_03: Am I and I'm gonna use the word shackled here.
- 27:17SPEAKER_03: Am I shackled?
- 27:19SPEAKER_03: No, you're just uh I'm loose.
- 27:21SPEAKER_03: I'm loose in the cage.
- 27:22SPEAKER_03: Just in the cage.
- 27:23SPEAKER_03: Dumb as fuck choice.
- 27:25SPEAKER_03: Dumb as fuck choice on these gun spots.
- 27:27SPEAKER_03: I'm not shackled.
- 27:29SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 27:29SPEAKER_03: Uh could I wild shape?
- 27:32SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 27:33SPEAKER_03: Thank you.
- 27:34SPEAKER_03: Into spider, please.
- 27:36SPEAKER_03: I was really I was hoping that's what you were gonna do.
- 27:39SPEAKER_03: I was like, I'm gonna have to run.
- 27:41SPEAKER_03: There was a bit when I said there was a lot of guards, I was like thinking like at least 25 if you went on the offensive.
- 27:48SPEAKER_03: Oh no, that's that's gonzo.
- 27:50SPEAKER_03: That's absolutely gonzo.
- 27:51SPEAKER_03: I get if it w if it wasn't spider just trying to crawl out of this fucking cage.
- 27:57SPEAKER_03: You would go for it.
- 27:59SPEAKER_03: Uh no, I would no, I would I was never going for it.
- 28:01SPEAKER_03: It'd be succumb again.
- 28:02SPEAKER_03: I would be going, succumb, succumb, succumb.
- 28:04SPEAKER_03: Hopefully I'll see my pals again.
- 28:07SPEAKER_03: But it was at no point would I see 30 guards and go, I think Don's got this in the locker to take out all 25 of them.
- 28:14SPEAKER_03: But uh yeah, yeah.
- 28:15SPEAKER_03: Let's wild shape.
- 28:17SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 28:18SPEAKER_03: Spider.
- 28:18SPEAKER_03: Now remind me here again what am I doing.
- 28:20SPEAKER_03: You gain three temporary HP hit points, is that?
- 28:24SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 28:24SPEAKER_03: So do I need to I don't need to roll anything just to go into that, it's just spell, right?
- 28:27SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you just go into wild shape, you don't have to roll for that.
- 28:30SPEAKER_03: Uh so roll me, uh, we'll say stealth.
- 28:33SPEAKER_03: Stealth, stealth, stealth.
- 28:34SPEAKER_03: Well, you get spider stealth, so you get plus four.
- 28:36SPEAKER_03: Oh, fucking yeah.
- 28:37SPEAKER_03: I've I've actually already got plus four stealth.
- 28:40SPEAKER_03: There you go.
- 28:40SPEAKER_03: So it's not plus eight, is it?
- 28:41SPEAKER_03: No, no, you just get plus four.
- 28:43SPEAKER_03: Oh fuck me.
- 28:45SPEAKER_03: So plus four, eight.
- 28:48SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 28:48SPEAKER_03: Oh Jesus! Fucking Christ, just do one bastard thing well.
- 28:54SPEAKER_03: You know, it's not the end of the world.
- 28:57SPEAKER_03: It's not obviously not ideal.
- 28:59SPEAKER_03: Not what we're hoping for.
- 29:00SPEAKER_03: And he thinks he's so sneaky as well.
- 29:02SPEAKER_03: He's like, I'm about to be a little spider.
- 29:05SPEAKER_03: Uh the god's just gonna see all of it, in he?
- 29:07SPEAKER_03: Spider, right there.
- 29:09SPEAKER_03: He's right there.
- 29:09SPEAKER_03: He's a spider and he's right.
- 29:10SPEAKER_03: You hear a kind of thunder and it sounds Thunder Wave.
- 29:16SPEAKER_03: It just sounds like kind of God from above going, oh, for fuck's sake.
- 29:20SPEAKER_03: This is a good choice, God.
- 29:21SPEAKER_03: You can't even be angry at this one.
- 29:23SPEAKER_03: This is a good choice.
- 29:24SPEAKER_03: This uh this isn't a class.
- 29:26SPEAKER_03: I know what you're thinking.
- 29:26SPEAKER_03: You're thinking this is a classic Don Boltry.
- 29:29SPEAKER_03: Fuck up.
- 29:29SPEAKER_03: It isn't.
- 29:30SPEAKER_03: This is a good choice, God.
- 29:31SPEAKER_03: So the bug bell warrior, he's immediately noticed and he shouts, escape, escape, you try to escape, and he starts to move towards the cage you're in.
- 29:41SPEAKER_03: As a spider, you are small enough to get through the gaps the cage.
- 29:44SPEAKER_03: Easy.
- 29:45SPEAKER_03: So are you are you making a break for that?
- 29:46SPEAKER_03: 100%.
- 29:48SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 29:48SPEAKER_03: So I'll explain to you what's inside the cage.
- 29:51SPEAKER_03: So what's outside the cage is there's a stable that he was bringing his uh giant boar into.
- 29:57SPEAKER_03: Uh, so it's hey, there's a couple like stables next to each other where you put like an individual kind of animal in.
- 30:04SPEAKER_03: So you've got about six of them in a row.
- 30:06SPEAKER_02: Yeah, don't mind that.
- 30:07SPEAKER_03: And then it's just kind of like a runoff kind of drain sewage.
- 30:12SPEAKER_03: So you want to run it in the drains.
- 30:14SPEAKER_03: Drain me.
- 30:14SPEAKER_03: That's where spiders should be.
- 30:16SPEAKER_03: Okay, so he's gonna make an attempt to grab you.
- 30:19SPEAKER_03: So if you roll me uh a dexterity, I'll tell you what a spider dexterity is.
- 30:25SPEAKER_03: It is plus two.
- 30:27SPEAKER_03: He's fucking rolled a four again.
- 30:29SPEAKER_03: He's fucking rolled a four again.
- 30:31SPEAKER_03: Nah, nah, I'm not having this.
- 30:33SPEAKER_03: Uh it was such a fucking good ep.
- 30:35SPEAKER_03: When it's just story, I'm fucking all over it.
- 30:37SPEAKER_03: As soon as I need to roll one of these fucking dices.
- 30:40SPEAKER_03: Oh wait, what you got four?
- 30:43SPEAKER_03: Four.
- 30:44SPEAKER_03: So he got three plus two five, but you get plus two as a spider, so you've you've escaped.
- 30:50SPEAKER_03: Jesus Jiminy Cricks, that's close.
- 30:53SPEAKER_03: That is fucking close.
- 30:55SPEAKER_03: Oh, you got a f I I can't even believe you actually got.
- 30:58SPEAKER_03: Oh my god.
- 30:59SPEAKER_03: Me neither.
- 31:00SPEAKER_03: No, I'm so literally by one dexterity.
- 31:03SPEAKER_03: So he has He's like gone to get me.
- 31:06SPEAKER_03: So his hand was on top of you, he was bringing the he's closing his hand in and you just escaped through the gap.
- 31:13SPEAKER_03: Gap in the finger, flew away, you're now in the drain, so there's just a pipe that's going down.
- 31:18SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 31:19SPEAKER_03: Smells terrible, it smells like sewage.
- 31:22SPEAKER_03: Of course.
- 31:23SPEAKER_03: It's not good.
- 31:24SPEAKER_03: What he's gonna do is as he he sees you run into the drain, he's gonna go and he can see he's got dark vision as well, so he's looking down the pipe and he can see you.
- 31:34SPEAKER_03: So he's gonna try and make a move to grab you, but he's not gonna his hands are not gonna fit down there.
- 31:40SPEAKER_03: So instead, he grabs water, a bucket of water that's there for one of the horses.
- 31:44SPEAKER_03: That's really smart, actually.
- 31:46SPEAKER_03: Well done, mate.
- 31:46SPEAKER_03: Well done, mate.
- 31:47SPEAKER_03: That's smart.
- 31:48SPEAKER_03: Throws it down the drain to try and flush you out.
- 31:50SPEAKER_03: Yeah, smart.
- 31:51SPEAKER_03: Just good play.
- 31:52SPEAKER_03: Can't even be annoyed at it.
- 31:53SPEAKER_03: I would have done the same.
- 31:55SPEAKER_03: Now you've been washed into the proper sewers.
- 31:58SPEAKER_03: So it's very much like classic, like ninja turtles sewers.
- 32:02SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 32:03SPEAKER_03: I mean, we all we we can all visualize the sewer.
- 32:06SPEAKER_03: We're all there.
- 32:07SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 32:07SPEAKER_03: We've seen enough stuff with people kicking about sewers for us to know exactly what exactly where he is.
- 32:13SPEAKER_03: Now you're in the sewer, it's the classic sewer with the big running water through the middle and the two kind of walkways either side.
- 32:18SPEAKER_03: Now you're down there, what are you wanting to do?
- 32:21SPEAKER_03: Because it's like there's kind of you're looking at kind of like a maze situation here where there's different kind of passages and stuff like that.
- 32:27SPEAKER_03: So you're wanting to start investigating.
- 32:29SPEAKER_03: That would be a good move.
- 32:30SPEAKER_03: Let's just blindly go back on ourselves.
- 32:33SPEAKER_03: You want to go back up the pipe?
- 32:34SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 32:35SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 32:35SPEAKER_03: In a bit, in a in a in a like a minute.
- 32:38SPEAKER_03: Alright.
- 32:39SPEAKER_03: Because that's the last thing they'd expect.
- 32:40SPEAKER_03: That's the last thing they'd expect.
- 32:42SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 32:42SPEAKER_03: I think they're all now good and good knowing right, he's down there.
- 32:45SPEAKER_03: We've flushed him down there.
- 32:47SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 32:47SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna go back, I want to go back up the pipe.
- 32:49SPEAKER_03: Because also, if I am gonna get out of this, I don't want to get out of this alone.
- 32:52SPEAKER_03: I want to get out of this with my friends.
- 32:54SPEAKER_03: So I need to somewhat find them.
- 32:56SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 32:56SPEAKER_03: It's the last thing.
- 32:57SPEAKER_03: It's like when you're playing hide and seek, Liam, right?
- 32:59SPEAKER_03: I always say this in life.
- 33:00SPEAKER_03: Sometimes I'm in a quandary and I go, what would I do if I was playing hide and seek?
- 33:04SPEAKER_03: Do you know what I would do?
- 33:05SPEAKER_03: I would hide.
- 33:06SPEAKER_03: I'm not an idiot, I would hide, but as near to the person that's about to seek as possible.
- 33:12SPEAKER_03: Because that's the last place they'd think you'd fucking hide.
- 33:16SPEAKER_03: Behind them.
- 33:17SPEAKER_03: So that's what that's what Don's doing now.
- 33:19SPEAKER_03: The last thing they'd expect me to do is run back up this pipe.
- 33:22SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 33:23SPEAKER_03: Back up the pipe.
- 33:24SPEAKER_03: Do you want to roll me a dexterity?
- 33:26SPEAKER_03: I do.
- 33:26SPEAKER_03: And I I and I'll tell you something else, Liam.
- 33:28SPEAKER_03: I want to roll it well.
- 33:29SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 33:30SPEAKER_03: I really could do with this being the first good roll of the day.
- 33:33SPEAKER_03: I could really do with that, actually, Liam, because you haven't filled me with confidence this is a good idea at all.
- 33:38SPEAKER_03: I thought you'd be proud of me.
- 33:39SPEAKER_03: I'm pretty I'm proud to say.
- 33:41SPEAKER_03: Two! It's got worse.
- 33:43SPEAKER_03: It's got so significantly worse.
- 33:46SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 33:47SPEAKER_03: How could it get worse from four?
- 33:49SPEAKER_03: Well, it's not got totally worse.
- 33:50SPEAKER_03: Oh no, it has.
- 33:51SPEAKER_03: And don't fucking care.
- 33:53SPEAKER_03: I I was I I'll tell you what's gonna ha uh what could have happened.
- 33:56SPEAKER_03: If you got a one, he was gonna catch you.
- 33:59SPEAKER_03: Two.
- 34:00SPEAKER_03: So I this this is a two well as a as a a person trying to control the game kind of thing.
- 34:09SPEAKER_03: Uh my original thing was if this was happening to me because I have so many other people around to catch you, I would stay trying to look down and be like, oh can I see him and then send them down.
- 34:20SPEAKER_03: So he was gonna stay, and I was like, but he might not be that clever, so I rolled his uh wisdom.
- 34:25SPEAKER_03: He rolled a 17, so I was like, Well, here's that clever, he's really smart.
- 34:30SPEAKER_03: So shit, he he stayed looking at it, looking down the pipe.
- 34:35SPEAKER_03: I bet this dumb fuck's gonna come right back.
- 34:38SPEAKER_03: So he seen you come back up the pipe, and as you came back up the pipe, you seen his eye and you shatter and you fell back down the pipe.
- 34:47SPEAKER_03: Good.
- 34:47SPEAKER_03: You know what?
- 34:48SPEAKER_03: Good.
- 34:48SPEAKER_03: Uh so I'm gonna say that you took a wee bit of damage for that.
- 34:52SPEAKER_03: So we're gonna say you took two damage from the fall.
- 34:54SPEAKER_03: What is Don's HP, by the way, because you've got your normal HP plus three.
- 34:58SPEAKER_03: Twenty-one, so twenty-four.
- 34:59SPEAKER_03: Minus was it two, I said?
- 35:01SPEAKER_03: Yes.
- 35:02SPEAKER_03: Yes.
- 35:02SPEAKER_03: 22 you've got.
- 35:03SPEAKER_03: Now that you're landed back on the floor of the sewer you originally are.
- 35:07SPEAKER_03: Okay, dumb plan.
- 35:08SPEAKER_03: You hear stupid plan.
- 35:10SPEAKER_03: Stupid, stupid Don.
- 35:11SPEAKER_03: Oh, just go back up the pipe.
- 35:13SPEAKER_03: What a dumb fuck.
- 35:14SPEAKER_03: You're a dumb fuck, don't.
- 35:16SPEAKER_03: You hear the sound of footsteps and you coming from you don't get a moment's peace in this fucking world.
- 35:23SPEAKER_03: It's they're coming from the north, so you can hear people running, be like, yeah, yeah, he's down, he's this way, and you hear the guy for the top who is looking down the pipe, he's shouting, he's like, Yeah, he's got an echoe pipe voice, and he's been like, yeah, yeah, he's down here, he's doing right.
- 35:38SPEAKER_03: I can still see myself.
- 35:40SPEAKER_03: Oh, this is baby so dumb.
- 35:43SPEAKER_03: Why am I just full of dumb choices?
- 35:45SPEAKER_03: Right, first things first.
- 35:46SPEAKER_03: Can I roll to investigate how many voices I heard?
- 35:49SPEAKER_03: And the steps, just like gather all the data to gather a guess of how many cunts are going to.
- 35:55SPEAKER_03: I'll just tell you that you don't need to roll for that so you can tell it's at least like five guys.
- 36:00SPEAKER_03: Five.
- 36:00SPEAKER_03: And they're all making burgers.
- 36:02unknown: Yeah.
- 36:04SPEAKER_03: Don't want to use all my fucking wild shape in uh hiding.
- 36:09SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 36:10SPEAKER_03: But I I thought that would have been maybe a good plan.
- 36:13SPEAKER_03: So there is a whole load of water running water next year and stuff.
- 36:17SPEAKER_03: Yes.
- 36:18SPEAKER_03: That's why I was looking at this giant opinion.
- 36:22SPEAKER_03: So I was like, get me in the water, I could hide in the water.
- 36:24SPEAKER_03: Here's a question.
- 36:25SPEAKER_03: Yes.
- 36:26SPEAKER_03: I know that because I've through my various years of watching I'm a celebrity get me out of here, I know there is such a thing as a a water spider, and spiders can hack it in the water.
- 36:36SPEAKER_03: But is that a certain type of spider?
- 36:38SPEAKER_03: Or is that all spiders?
- 36:41SPEAKER_03: Because I think some spiders would fucking hate to be in water and could maybe actually kill them.
- 36:45SPEAKER_03: The spider that is in the book for you, uh it doesn't say anything about water, so I'm assuming it doesn't like it.
- 36:51SPEAKER_03: It does say spider climb those so it can climb the ceilings and stuff like that.
- 36:55SPEAKER_03: Oh for fuck's sake, yeah.
- 36:57SPEAKER_03: What am I doing?
- 36:58SPEAKER_03: What am I fucking doing?
- 37:00SPEAKER_03: I'm a bastard spider, and all I've all I've tried to do is oh run back up the drain pipe.
- 37:06SPEAKER_03: Yeah, fucking yes.
- 37:07SPEAKER_03: Uh I'm gonna try and fucking wall climb onto the ceiling and scurry over these five bastards.
- 37:14SPEAKER_03: It's dark down there as well, they won't be able to.
- 37:16SPEAKER_03: Well, some of them will ha some of them have night vision because one of them's gonna be a bug bell body.
- 37:21SPEAKER_03: I'm just gonna tell you, see you know, uh, I've been trying you want to scurry to it so to the other platform separated by the water because it's two walkways.
- 37:29SPEAKER_03: But I want to stay on the roof over them first.
- 37:31SPEAKER_03: Right, okay.
- 37:32SPEAKER_03: I get the two walkways, just a bunch of shit and piss in the middle.
- 37:36SPEAKER_03: And you just want to stay there, does it say or not?
- 37:38SPEAKER_03: I want to I want to be constantly on the move.
- 37:40SPEAKER_03: I want to So if they're coming from here.
- 37:42SPEAKER_03: They're coming from the north.
- 37:43SPEAKER_03: Right, so let's say this is north, uh, and I'm here.
- 37:46SPEAKER_03: I want to wall climb above, and hopefully it'll be this sort of situation.
- 37:50SPEAKER_03: So you want to stealth over them and try and come out the way they came out?
- 37:53SPEAKER_03: Yes.
- 37:53SPEAKER_03: Like, okay, I I can work with that.
- 37:55SPEAKER_03: So roll me stealth again.
- 37:57SPEAKER_03: You get plus four because you're the spider.
- 37:59SPEAKER_03: Come on.
- 38:00SPEAKER_03: Eleven.
- 38:01SPEAKER_03: That's the first not terrible roll.
- 38:03SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 38:03SPEAKER_03: So 15.
- 38:04SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 38:05SPEAKER_03: Stop smiling.
- 38:06SPEAKER_03: Stop sm when you smile at that.
- 38:09SPEAKER_03: No, it's just it's never good.
- 38:11SPEAKER_03: These are all looking pretty low.
- 38:12SPEAKER_03: Two two of them have seen you.
- 38:14SPEAKER_03: Oh fuck.
- 38:15SPEAKER_03: Two of them immediately.
- 38:16SPEAKER_03: Uh he's he's on the ceiling, he's trying to run in behind us.
- 38:19SPEAKER_03: So they're gonna try they can't reach you because you're too far above them.
- 38:22SPEAKER_03: So well, one of them has a light hammer, so he's gonna challenge you.
- 38:26SPEAKER_03: That is a range attack, so he's gonna try and throw it at you.
- 38:29SPEAKER_03: I'll dodge that every day of the week.
- 38:30SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 38:31SPEAKER_03: Every day of the week I'll dodge that.
- 38:33SPEAKER_03: Oh what's that noise?
- 38:35SPEAKER_03: He's got a 21.
- 38:36SPEAKER_03: So I need to roll a 20.
- 38:38SPEAKER_03: You can say I'll give you a chance, there's a dexterity saving throw.
- 38:42SPEAKER_03: So your sterity saving throw is a plus two, so roll.
- 38:45SPEAKER_03: And it needs to be a twenty?
- 38:46SPEAKER_03: Pretty much, yeah.
- 38:48SPEAKER_03: So you know what?
- 38:49SPEAKER_03: This is actually the sort of fucking moment that Gareth will fucking pull through with.
- 38:53SPEAKER_03: This is me all over.
- 38:55SPEAKER_03: Been rolling fours and twos.
- 38:56SPEAKER_03: You don't think he's got it in the locker?
- 38:58SPEAKER_03: I just thought you were gonna run the other way.
- 39:00SPEAKER_03: Oh well, I no be it.
- 39:01SPEAKER_03: No, I wasn't gonna run the other way.
- 39:03SPEAKER_03: I'll give it a good fucking bash.
- 39:05SPEAKER_03: 15.
- 39:06SPEAKER_03: So he has hit you with his hammer.
- 39:08SPEAKER_03: He taken eight damage.
- 39:10SPEAKER_03: Eight?
- 39:11SPEAKER_03: Oh, for the love of shit.
- 39:14SPEAKER_03: Solo eps are the fucking worst.
- 39:16SPEAKER_03: 22 minus eight.
- 39:17SPEAKER_03: I'm also gonna need you to do a dexterity saving throw to see if you fall in the water.
- 39:21SPEAKER_03: So D20 plus two.
- 39:24SPEAKER_03: Oh no.
- 39:25SPEAKER_03: No.
- 39:26SPEAKER_03: So four.
- 39:26SPEAKER_03: So nah no.
- 39:30SPEAKER_03: This is fucking crap.
- 39:32SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 39:33SPEAKER_03: This is so not going my way.
- 39:34SPEAKER_03: So you've fallen in the water now.
- 39:36SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, I have.
- 39:38SPEAKER_03: If you want to stay in spider form, you're gonna need to make a constitution saving throw to see if we you start drowning or if you want to do something else.
- 39:46SPEAKER_03: I might just change into this fucking octopus, bruh.
- 39:49SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 39:50SPEAKER_03: I might just change it into an octopus, bruh.
- 39:54SPEAKER_03: I might just do nah, let's do the saving throw first.
- 39:57SPEAKER_03: Okay, so it's minus one on constitution, so whatever you roll you have to make to stay a spatline.
- 40:05SPEAKER_03: Yeah, what why do I want to stay a spider?
- 40:08SPEAKER_03: The spider has not worked out for me.
- 40:10SPEAKER_03: I mean, it got me out of the cage.
- 40:11SPEAKER_03: So let's talk about the positives.
- 40:12SPEAKER_03: Hey, look at that, bruh.
- 40:14SPEAKER_03: 19.
- 40:15SPEAKER_03: So you've survived and now you're being swept.
- 40:18SPEAKER_03: You're not drowning, but you're being swept further.
- 40:21SPEAKER_03: The water is running south.
- 40:22SPEAKER_03: It's sweeping you away, but they can still see you.
- 40:25SPEAKER_03: Finally.
- 40:26SPEAKER_03: What is Don's whole thing?
- 40:28SPEAKER_03: Boys and girls, listen to this podcast and everything beautiful in between.
- 40:31SPEAKER_03: Say it with me now.
- 40:33SPEAKER_03: Succumb.
- 40:34SPEAKER_03: Let's succumb.
- 40:35SPEAKER_03: Let's just fucking stay in the water.
- 40:37SPEAKER_03: Let's see where the it takes me.
- 40:38SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 40:39SPEAKER_03: Let's just succumb.
- 40:40SPEAKER_03: It's gonna lead somewhere.
- 40:42SPEAKER_03: Probably an op an open body of water.
- 40:46SPEAKER_03: Become the octopus.
- 40:47SPEAKER_03: Bingo bingo bingo.
- 40:49SPEAKER_03: We're grand.
- 40:50SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 40:50SPEAKER_03: Succumb.
- 40:51SPEAKER_03: Succumb.
- 40:52SPEAKER_03: And I could probably beat five guys.
- 40:53SPEAKER_03: No, go.
- 40:54SPEAKER_03: What am I talking about?
- 40:55SPEAKER_03: Beat five guys.
- 40:56SPEAKER_03: I'm a spider and I just got hit by a fucking hammer.
- 40:58SPEAKER_03: I'm talking at my R.
- 40:59SPEAKER_03: They all see you now.
- 41:01SPEAKER_03: A little spider and some fucking shit water.
- 41:03SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 41:03SPEAKER_03: So four of them still have ranged weapons and spears.
- 41:06SPEAKER_03: They're gonna take a roll run at you.
- 41:08SPEAKER_03: One misses completely.
- 41:10SPEAKER_03: What's your AC again?
- 41:12SPEAKER_03: It's 13.
- 41:13SPEAKER_03: We've missed one, so now two of them don't have weapons, but it is still three to go.
- 41:18SPEAKER_03: Now you know what I'm feeling positive about it.
- 41:20SPEAKER_03: Four.
- 41:20SPEAKER_03: That's fine.
- 41:21SPEAKER_03: Miss again.
- 41:24SPEAKER_03: 16 plus.
- 41:26SPEAKER_03: That sounds like a hit.
- 41:26SPEAKER_03: That sounds like a hit.
- 41:27SPEAKER_03: I will give you the chance to make a dexterity saving throw to try and avoid this.
- 41:31SPEAKER_03: But if you do it on this one, that's one that gets thrown, there's one left, you're not gonna make if that hits, that hits, there's no way it.
- 41:38SPEAKER_03: Can I try and do I ha can I decide what I do when I'm trying to dodge it or do it am I just trying to dodge it?
- 41:44SPEAKER_03: Like can I jump out of the water onto the other side?
- 41:46SPEAKER_03: If you want to, but you're gonna get disadvantage on your roll.
- 41:50SPEAKER_03: Yeah, let's just try and dodge it then.
- 41:51SPEAKER_03: Fuck it.
- 41:52SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 41:52SPEAKER_03: 17.
- 41:53SPEAKER_03: I have a minute of that.
- 41:55SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna say 17 plus two.
- 41:56SPEAKER_03: So it's 1919.
- 41:58SPEAKER_03: Uh it's a straight draw.
- 42:00SPEAKER_03: Nothing happened.
- 42:00SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
- 42:01SPEAKER_03: I need to Google this now.
- 42:02SPEAKER_03: Drawing it.
- 42:03SPEAKER_03: No, no.
- 42:03SPEAKER_03: I think it favours the attacker.
- 42:05SPEAKER_03: I'm googling.
- 42:05SPEAKER_03: Hold on.
- 42:06SPEAKER_03: Oh, of course it fucking does.
- 42:09SPEAKER_03: I roll a 17.
- 42:11SPEAKER_03: Get a 19 overall.
- 42:12SPEAKER_03: One away from fucking ultimate.
- 42:15SPEAKER_03: And it's a draw.
- 42:17SPEAKER_03: Thinking of the offside rule is what you're thinking of.
- 42:19SPEAKER_03: The old offside rule as well.
- 42:20SPEAKER_03: No one's favoured the attacker in years, bro.
- 42:24SPEAKER_03: It's a tough one because from what I'm reading.
- 42:26SPEAKER_03: Maybe go with your gut on it then, maybe just let it pass, huh?
- 42:28SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it basically says nothing happens for what I can see on Google.
- 42:32SPEAKER_03: So he he misses, but is it's you are now knocked off balance on the next person who takes a run who's frozen spear that you're gonna get advantage.
- 42:40SPEAKER_03: It's fine, because he's gonna get fuck all.
- 42:42SPEAKER_03: That's fine.
- 42:42SPEAKER_03: Watch.
- 42:43SPEAKER_03: I know it.
- 42:43SPEAKER_03: He's gonna get he.
- 42:44SPEAKER_03: So he got 17.
- 42:45SPEAKER_03: That's good.
- 42:46SPEAKER_03: So he's gonna have shit.
- 42:47SPEAKER_03: That's really good.
- 42:48SPEAKER_03: And he does six damage.
- 42:49SPEAKER_03: So you're down to ten.
- 42:51SPEAKER_03: Fuck me.
- 42:53SPEAKER_03: But they all are now out of weapons, so if it it would only be hand to hand.
- 42:57SPEAKER_03: But you are being swept away in a uh in this current, and before they can even get a chance to do another move, they're completely out of eye shot now, and you've been swept.
- 43:06SPEAKER_03: Almost like a water slide.
- 43:07SPEAKER_03: There's a lot of twists, a lot of turns, you're getting thrown about the place a bit.
- 43:10SPEAKER_03: Is it anything you want to do?
- 43:12SPEAKER_03: Yes, no.
- 43:12SPEAKER_03: I think I tried to do this last time, and I think you told me I couldn't.
- 43:16SPEAKER_03: I can't do spells as a not as a spider.
- 43:20SPEAKER_03: So with the the three big ones, your bear, the octopus, and the eagle, you can there's three spells you can do in no shape.
- 43:28SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 43:29SPEAKER_03: Um They're out of eyeshot now.
- 43:31SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you can't see them anymore.
- 43:32SPEAKER_03: So you're just being swept along, you don't know where this ends.
- 43:35SPEAKER_03: I don't know where I am.
- 43:36SPEAKER_03: I don't know uh anything about this.
- 43:38SPEAKER_03: If I'm trying to get if we're trying to get to the bottom of stuff, all of this is new.
- 43:42SPEAKER_03: So as you're getting swept along though, you do see like there is like kind of ladders, like you're getting swept, like there is ways out of this sewer.
- 43:51SPEAKER_03: Let's let's do that then.
- 43:52SPEAKER_03: Let's get out of the water onto one of the side walkways.
- 43:56SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 43:57SPEAKER_03: As the spider.
- 43:58SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 43:59SPEAKER_03: And then try.
- 44:00SPEAKER_03: Transition to a you just want to be running about?
- 44:03SPEAKER_03: No.
- 44:05SPEAKER_03: No, no, I don't.
- 44:06SPEAKER_03: I want to spider in the water, out onto the walkway, come out of the spider, de-dawn.
- 44:11SPEAKER_03: De dawn.
- 44:12SPEAKER_03: Climb ladder.
- 44:13SPEAKER_03: Open the fucking hatch or whatever at the top of the ladder.
- 44:16SPEAKER_03: Come out.
- 44:17SPEAKER_03: Then I'm then I want to roll a wee.
- 44:18SPEAKER_03: Investigate.
- 44:19SPEAKER_03: See my surroundings.
- 44:20SPEAKER_03: And then I'll and then I'll decide from there.
- 44:21SPEAKER_03: Can I do that?
- 44:22SPEAKER_03: Can I Sure.
- 44:23SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 44:23SPEAKER_03: So Climb up the ladder.
- 44:25SPEAKER_03: So roll me a dexterity as a spider just to see make sure you get out or out.
- 44:29SPEAKER_03: That's 20.
- 44:30SPEAKER_03: The dirty 20.
- 44:30SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 44:31SPEAKER_03: So you got an 18 plus two.
- 44:32SPEAKER_03: So you're out, you climb easily climb up through the you turn back into dawn, obviously, when you hit the kind of walkway.
- 44:39SPEAKER_03: Then you climb up the ladder, you get out of the sewer out of a drain.
- 44:42SPEAKER_03: Peak peek out.
- 44:43SPEAKER_03: Peak out.
- 44:44SPEAKER_03: So you want to roll investigation?
- 44:45SPEAKER_03: I do, because I feel like I've travelled a couple of blocks at least.
- 44:48SPEAKER_03: 15.
- 44:49SPEAKER_03: Now we're rolling.
- 44:50SPEAKER_03: Now we're rolling.
- 44:51SPEAKER_03: It's a minus one.
- 44:52SPEAKER_03: You might have a minus one in investigation.
- 44:55SPEAKER_03: Why the fuck would I put that in?
- 44:57SPEAKER_03: I think you said you didn't want to be very absorbent when we were making the characters.
- 45:02SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's fun, isn't it?
- 45:03SPEAKER_03: That's very fun.
- 45:04SPEAKER_03: Uh so 14 is actually what I got.
- 45:07SPEAKER_03: Okay, so you you've came out at uh the retail district of the city.
- 45:12SPEAKER_03: So there's a lot of like you're kinda in like a market, there's a lot of stalls, people kind of selling selling the whales, so there's like people selling like married and like things that smell nice, there's people selling like scarves and clothing.
- 45:25SPEAKER_03: Uh there's a small kind of animal one where it's like selling like rabbits and guinea pigs and shit like that.
- 45:32SPEAKER_03: Mad question.
- 45:33SPEAKER_03: Uh-huh.
- 45:34SPEAKER_03: Mad question.
- 45:35SPEAKER_03: Are they all I don't even know what the word would be human?
- 45:37SPEAKER_03: So when you look around, there's a mix, so there's like humans and humanoids, so like kind of human-looking lizard people.
- 45:45SPEAKER_03: Is there any animals kicking about this market?
- 45:47SPEAKER_03: Yeah, there's the people selling animals, so there's something animals just l free, loose, free in the market.
- 45:53SPEAKER_03: Well, you see like a rat you see like kind of rats, but they're more coming towards the soil that you're coming out of.
- 45:58SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 45:59SPEAKER_03: There's no like any just like loose animals kind of walking about, apart for like pigeons and stuff like that.
- 46:04SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 46:05SPEAKER_03: Shiser.
- 46:06SPEAKER_03: I mean, I didn't expect the fucking badger to be shopping in the market.
- 46:09SPEAKER_03: Sad.
- 46:10SPEAKER_03: There's also a there's a rat coming straight towards you and it's kind of squeaking at you.
- 46:14SPEAKER_03: Fuck off rat.
- 46:16SPEAKER_03: Fuck off rat.
- 46:17SPEAKER_03: Well, it's just squeaking, you don't know what it's trying to say.
- 46:20SPEAKER_03: I see what you're I'm picking up what you're putting down.
- 46:22SPEAKER_03: I'm picking up what you're putting down for the first time in this game.
- 46:26SPEAKER_03: I'm picking up what you're putting down.
- 46:27SPEAKER_03: Uh let's speak to this rat.
- 46:29SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 46:30SPEAKER_03: I'd like to know what it's saying.
- 46:31SPEAKER_03: So you cast Speak with Animals, that uses a first level spell slot.
- 46:35SPEAKER_03: That's okay.
- 46:36SPEAKER_03: It's uh it's you hear the squeaking and then you cast it and it starts to change from a squeak to quite a kind of nasally kind of why are you in the show?
- 46:46SPEAKER_03: I didn't know Vladimir makes that gonna be in this game as a rat.
- 46:54SPEAKER_03: I say to the rat, which is something I never thought I'd be saying in this game.
- 46:59SPEAKER_03: Can you help me?
- 46:59SPEAKER_03: Uh I'm on the run.
- 47:01SPEAKER_03: I don't know where I am, I don't know who these people were that were taking me here.
- 47:05SPEAKER_03: They tried to take me up into like the sort of palacy bit.
- 47:07SPEAKER_03: They've got two of my friends.
- 47:09SPEAKER_03: Can you help me?
- 47:09SPEAKER_03: Find my friend.
- 47:10SPEAKER_03: That goes.
- 47:12SPEAKER_03: Oh.
- 47:15SPEAKER_03: And now it's a junky rat.
- 47:17SPEAKER_03: Oh man, you're on the run name.
- 47:23SPEAKER_03: I'm loving this little rat.
- 47:25SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I I don't like to.
- 47:27SPEAKER_03: I spend my whole life on the run.
- 47:28SPEAKER_03: People constantly try to trap me, eat me, they hate me.
- 47:35SPEAKER_03: Hey, so the rat the rat relates to your cause.
- 47:38SPEAKER_03: So he he he he likes it, he he kind of he likes your vibe because you smell like he likes it.
- 47:43SPEAKER_03: Well, he you smell like shit because you've just been in the soil bottle.
- 47:46SPEAKER_03: So he's a little shit rat as well.
- 47:48SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 47:48SPEAKER_03: So he's like, I get this guy.
- 47:50SPEAKER_03: I get this.
- 47:51SPEAKER_03: I'm loving this guy.
- 47:53SPEAKER_03: So he goes, listen, listen, let me take you back to my nest.
- 47:57SPEAKER_03: I'll go and we'll talk to my I'm very I'm a very well connected rat.
- 48:02SPEAKER_03: We'll talk to everybody, we'll see what the story is.
- 48:04SPEAKER_03: How about that?
- 48:05SPEAKER_03: I like this, I like this.
- 48:06SPEAKER_03: I'll follow you to your nest.
- 48:08SPEAKER_03: Right, okay.
- 48:09SPEAKER_03: The rat kind of starts to scamper off.
- 48:10SPEAKER_03: You could chase the rat.
- 48:12SPEAKER_03: The only thing that's bothering me is I shouldn't be kicking about as me.
- 48:18SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 48:18SPEAKER_03: So I'm what I'm doing now is, gang, for the listeners, is I'm looking through all of Dom's wild shapes and I'm trying to pick what one of these is most likely to be friends with a rat.
- 48:30SPEAKER_03: I can tell you one piece of information if you want.
- 48:32SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I th I have made my uh my mind up, but yes.
- 48:36SPEAKER_03: A spider is small enough to ride on the back of a rat.
- 48:39SPEAKER_03: Phenomenal.
- 48:40SPEAKER_03: I mean, apps I mean, just phenomenal help.
- 48:42SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 48:43SPEAKER_03: Rather than I think a badger could be friends with a rat.
- 48:49SPEAKER_03: Uh yeah.
- 48:50SPEAKER_03: It feels mad though, doesn't it?
- 48:52SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna use up two I only get two, and I'm about to use them both up, both times being a spider.
- 49:00SPEAKER_03: Um, but yeah, let's spider it up again.
- 49:02SPEAKER_03: So you turn into this spider again.
- 49:04SPEAKER_03: And I jump on the back.
- 49:06SPEAKER_03: Well, say obviously before you go, listen, you say that you he's playing to the rat, uh, I can't be seen.
- 49:12SPEAKER_03: I will turn into a spider, and then can I jump on your back and you take me a nest?
- 49:15SPEAKER_03: And he goes, I like your style.
- 49:17SPEAKER_03: You make you're just making the whole thing consensual with the rat.
- 49:20SPEAKER_03: Well, I'm just making sure the rat doesn't run away and then you're just a spider because you can't talk to him as a spider.
- 49:25SPEAKER_03: Oh fuck.
- 49:26SPEAKER_03: Because you can't do wild to talk with an animal.
- 49:28SPEAKER_03: So he goes, Right, I I get what's going on.
- 49:31SPEAKER_03: You can't speak as a spider, I'm gonna take you.
- 49:33SPEAKER_03: If I I bring him up today.
- 49:35SPEAKER_03: Here's what's gonna happen now.
- 49:37SPEAKER_03: I'm about to become a spider again.
- 49:39SPEAKER_03: Jump on your back.
- 49:40SPEAKER_03: I can't even chance here when I'm a spider.
- 49:42SPEAKER_03: But as soon as we get to your nest, I'll talk to you.
- 49:44SPEAKER_03: Well, we we'll talk through meme.
- 49:46SPEAKER_03: I'll I'll talk I'll we'll Oh, do you speak you speak rat sign language?
- 49:50SPEAKER_03: RSL?
- 49:51SPEAKER_03: You speak RSL.
- 49:52SPEAKER_03: We'll figure it out when we get in the nest, okay?
- 49:54SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 49:54SPEAKER_03: So you jump in the rat's back and you're writing through the city on the back of a rat as a spider.
- 50:00SPEAKER_03: Wanting to say a million things to this rat, just seeing a whole new place in the world.
- 50:05SPEAKER_03: All he's wanted to do is chat with this rat, but alas he can't.
- 50:08SPEAKER_03: Run through the detail district into kind of the rougher west side of town, which is kind of like apartment built, not apartment buildings because there's no like high-rise flats or anything like that, but it's like where people live, but it's you can tell looking at the houses are not very nice.
- 50:23SPEAKER_03: Uh he runs far away from the palace vibes.
- 50:26SPEAKER_03: I was just in.
- 50:27SPEAKER_03: Maybe you should have stuck out of the fucking palace.
- 50:29SPEAKER_03: Well, you wouldn't have this wee rats.
- 50:33SPEAKER_03: So he runs into an abandoned building, you go under a floorboard, f under the floor, down and into a basement that is full of rats.
- 50:42SPEAKER_03: How many rats?
- 50:43SPEAKER_03: We're talking at least a hundred rats.
- 50:45SPEAKER_03: Wow.
- 50:46SPEAKER_03: That's a fucking shit.
- 50:47SPEAKER_03: Do you know they they have babies every three months?
- 50:49SPEAKER_03: Rats.
- 50:50SPEAKER_03: Uh-huh.
- 50:50SPEAKER_03: A rat can have a children and it's like a big litter.
- 50:53SPEAKER_03: It's like I think it's like something like six or eight.
- 50:56SPEAKER_03: Oh, I don't like that.
- 50:57SPEAKER_03: I really don't care for that.
- 50:59SPEAKER_03: Well, he you can't I was about to say he says this, but you can't understand.
- 51:02SPEAKER_03: So he squeaks at you and he's like and he kind of waves his arms like Rats! I can figure out he's probably he's probably just going, see, I'm a very well connected rat.
- 51:12SPEAKER_03: I wasn't fucking lying to you.
- 51:13SPEAKER_03: Look at all these rats, mate.
- 51:15SPEAKER_03: How big is it in this room?
- 51:16SPEAKER_03: So it's like the basement of what looks like the uh kind of an a bag Height wise.
- 51:22SPEAKER_03: Uh it's a it's a decent it's it's one of those ones, but for if I a a six foot free man like me would have to kind of crouch in this basement.
- 51:32SPEAKER_03: So down there and then it's just full of kind of shit.
- 51:34SPEAKER_03: Like they've the rats have picked up.
- 51:36SPEAKER_03: The rats haven't cleaned up for me.
- 51:37SPEAKER_03: The rats weren't expecting me.
- 51:38SPEAKER_03: No.
- 51:39SPEAKER_03: I'm I'm not I'm not judging, going, Oh god, you guys are living like rats.
- 51:43SPEAKER_03: Because the rats live.
- 51:45SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna forgive the rats for not having the best um etiquette for guests.
- 51:49SPEAKER_03: The rat starts got me crazy.
- 51:51SPEAKER_03: I'd forgive a rat for that.
- 51:52SPEAKER_03: So another rat kind of comes up and nodding towards the spider on well, we need to give this rat a name.
- 51:58SPEAKER_03: Oh, well, I was that's what I was gonna do when I transformed out of the thing back into Dawn.
- 52:02SPEAKER_03: The first thing I was gonna say was, What's your name, buddy?
- 52:04SPEAKER_03: Trying to think of famous rats.
- 52:06SPEAKER_03: The rat is called Ashley Cole.
- 52:08SPEAKER_03: I was just I was right on the same vibe as you, and I was gonna be like Alexander Isaac rats.
- 52:14SPEAKER_03: So the uh Andy Cole or Ashley Cole.
- 52:17SPEAKER_03: Ashley Cole, so he's squeaking out Ashley Cole's squeaking away.
- 52:21SPEAKER_03: Very famous rat.
- 52:22SPEAKER_03: Uh and the other rat nods, and then in front of you, all the rats kind of climb on top of each other to start forming shapes for the spider to try and describe what they know.
- 52:34SPEAKER_03: They kind of form a kind of like all together, kind of create almost like a tableau that looks a bit like Dawn in the Cage.
- 52:42SPEAKER_03: And then turns into a spider, jumps down, these are fucking talented rats.
- 52:47SPEAKER_03: I've seen these before as well, but I don't know if it was ever rats.
- 52:50SPEAKER_03: But I've seen when there's like a bunch of people, usually on a beach.
- 52:52SPEAKER_03: I don't know why, but in my head, I'm picturing it on a beach and they are all moving around to spell out words and stuff.
- 52:59SPEAKER_03: Well, I I'm I'm directly ripping this off from Finding Nemo.
- 53:02SPEAKER_03: Finding Nemo.
- 53:05SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 53:06SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 53:07SPEAKER_03: There's a few examples of this in in cinema.
- 53:09SPEAKER_03: Uh but that's a good one, yeah.
- 53:11SPEAKER_03: So they form that, and you're like, alright, that's me.
- 53:14SPEAKER_03: They know I ran away.
- 53:16SPEAKER_03: Now they form a a couple of smaller guards looking around, looking very angry.
- 53:22SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 53:22SPEAKER_03: So I mean, so far they're just replaying out all the things that I'm aware of.
- 53:25SPEAKER_03: So they're letting you know that the guards are still looking for you.
- 53:28SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 53:29SPEAKER_03: And then they hold up a few of them form like a kind of sheet.
- 53:32SPEAKER_03: The sheet goes close to you as it goes closer to you, more rats joining the sheet to give it more detail.
- 53:36SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 53:37SPEAKER_03: And it's a wanted picture, wanted poster of your face.
- 53:40SPEAKER_03: They create a picture of the palace, and you see the ruler of this land looking out angry, and then kind of the smaller sheet again being like slamming it down, being like pointing at it, squeaking away, like meh meh meh.
- 53:53SPEAKER_03: Okay, I'm picking up what you're putting down here, rat.
- 53:55SPEAKER_03: Here's a fun question.
- 53:56SPEAKER_03: How would I communicate to a rat?
- 53:58SPEAKER_03: I want to know where my friends are.
- 54:00SPEAKER_03: As a spider.
- 54:01SPEAKER_03: As a spider.
- 54:02SPEAKER_03: Nope.
- 54:03SPEAKER_03: Nothing coming to me.
- 54:04SPEAKER_03: Uh my first instinct, which is fucking crazy, was the spider should the spider should do the riff from friends, the TV show.
- 54:16SPEAKER_03: And then just throw off his arms like, where?
- 54:18SPEAKER_00: But you go din din din and then the uh they all clap at the that is fucking oh fuck, fuck, that's great.
- 54:36SPEAKER_03: And then and then yeah, Don just does like a aware, like whoa, looking around, like, where are they?
- 54:44SPEAKER_03: So friend, there and then they obviously got that because they're very cultured, these rats.
- 54:52SPEAKER_03: Uh and then where.
- 54:53SPEAKER_03: So yeah, friends where they form the palace again, and then a couple of them from a big kind of arrow, and they move the arrow back and forth to be like in the palace.
- 55:02SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 55:03SPEAKER_03: I might have to go back into dawn here to communicate with these rats again.
- 55:06SPEAKER_03: I know that would leave me then out of everything.
- 55:08SPEAKER_03: Well, you could try and do the Charlotte Webb manoeuvre.
- 55:11SPEAKER_03: What the fuck's a Charlotte Webb manoeuvre?
- 55:13SPEAKER_03: You never you never seen Charlotte's Webb?
- 55:15SPEAKER_03: Nah, bruv.
- 55:15SPEAKER_03: Well, she put she writes messages in the webs.
- 55:18SPEAKER_03: Where she's she's trying to get a save a pig's life.
- 55:21SPEAKER_03: I don't even think that requires fucking Charlotte Webb.
- 55:24SPEAKER_03: Liam, why seriously now, why do I not have any good instincts?
- 55:30SPEAKER_03: You've just never seen Charlotte's Webb isn't that.
- 55:32SPEAKER_03: That's really, really good.
- 55:33SPEAKER_03: That's really, really good.
- 55:36SPEAKER_03: That's really good, though.
- 55:38SPEAKER_03: Fucking playing the ref from friends.
- 55:40SPEAKER_03: He's talking about friends, yeah.
- 55:42SPEAKER_03: He's probably gonna ask where they are.
- 55:44SPEAKER_03: So get ready to do the ballast again.
- 55:48SPEAKER_03: Uh yeah.
- 55:49SPEAKER_03: Let's web it up.
- 55:50SPEAKER_03: Let's fucking sext with these fucking no, not sex.
- 55:54SPEAKER_03: Text.
- 55:56SPEAKER_03: Why did I go to sex?
- 55:58SPEAKER_03: No, I don't want a sex with any rat.
- 56:00SPEAKER_03: That was a genuine, that was a one of the rats starts to kind of move his eyebrows out you're looking at the bottom.
- 56:05SPEAKER_03: I couldn't do an avocado.
- 56:07SPEAKER_03: Not an avocado.
- 56:09SPEAKER_03: Not an avocado.
- 56:10SPEAKER_03: A fucking aubergine.
- 56:13SPEAKER_03: What is wrong with me today?
- 56:14SPEAKER_03: An avocado.
- 56:16SPEAKER_03: That's that's not sexy.
- 56:18SPEAKER_03: Yeah, let's make guacamole together.
- 56:20SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna spell out using webs.
- 56:22SPEAKER_03: Do you know a safe way into the past?
- 56:24SPEAKER_03: They all form a big word that says yes.
- 56:27SPEAKER_03: Beautiful.
- 56:28SPEAKER_03: Are you all willing?
- 56:31SPEAKER_03: Now think, don't act emo don't act emotionally here, okay?
- 56:35SPEAKER_03: No, I want you to act emotionally.
- 56:37SPEAKER_03: Don't act logically.
- 56:38SPEAKER_03: Think of what this the moment could be when you answer this question.
- 56:41SPEAKER_03: Dawn in the form of a spider spells out in a web, are you all?
- 56:46SPEAKER_03: and he underlines in the web all willing to help me gain entry to the power.
- 56:51SPEAKER_03: Think about this, Liam.
- 56:52SPEAKER_03: Because if I rock up to this palace with a rat army, who wouldn't want that, Liam?
- 56:57SPEAKER_03: I know everyone listening to this is going, oh, let him rock up with a rat army.
- 57:01SPEAKER_03: Let him rock up with a rat army.
- 57:04SPEAKER_03: So are you all willing to help me gain entry to the power?
- 57:06SPEAKER_03: They all form the word yes, but then the word but.
- 57:10SPEAKER_03: Oh.
- 57:11SPEAKER_03: And then they form a massive block of cheese, and then Ashley Cole points at the block of cheese the rat block of cheese, points at it, points at himself, and then gives you a thumbs up.
- 57:22SPEAKER_03: If you help me gain entry to the palace, spelling it.
- 57:25SPEAKER_03: Why don't you just point at the cheese and we go, yeah?
- 57:28SPEAKER_03: Oh, surely they're wanting, they're saying we need paid and cheese.
- 57:31SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 57:31SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 57:31SPEAKER_03: Yeah, no, I'm not I'm doing it my way.
- 57:33SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 57:34SPEAKER_03: Spells out if you help me gain entry to this palace and help me find my friends again, you will all lose your shit at the size of this fucking cheese I'm gonna get you.
- 57:47SPEAKER_03: I can tell you've no seen Charlotte's web because one of the major plot points in it is that she can only really do one word at a time.
- 57:54SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna allow it though.
- 57:56SPEAKER_03: I'll roll for it.
- 57:58SPEAKER_03: That's how passionate I am.
- 57:59SPEAKER_03: Okay, roll roll uh charisma.
- 58:02SPEAKER_03: You know what?
- 58:03SPEAKER_03: Let's just forget that.
- 58:04SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I'll just have I'll just point to the gate.
- 58:07SPEAKER_03: I'll point at the cheese.
- 58:08SPEAKER_03: What did you get?
- 58:08SPEAKER_03: Liam, I'll point at the cheese.
- 58:09SPEAKER_03: Did you get eight?
- 58:10SPEAKER_03: No, no, no, no, no, I moved it.
- 58:12SPEAKER_03: What did you get?
- 58:13SPEAKER_03: I'll point a one cheese.
- 58:14SPEAKER_03: I'll point at the cheese.
- 58:15SPEAKER_03: Did you get a one?
- 58:16SPEAKER_03: Did you get a one?
- 58:16SPEAKER_03: I will point at the cheese.
- 58:18SPEAKER_03: Did you get a one, Carrie?
- 58:21SPEAKER_03: Okay, I got two.
- 58:22SPEAKER_03: The bad news is spiders have minus four charisma.
- 58:26SPEAKER_03: But I think the good news is I don't think you actually your charisma points carry over, so you have to so use Don's charisma.
- 58:33SPEAKER_03: Plus one.
- 58:34SPEAKER_03: So it's three.
- 58:35SPEAKER_03: Three.
- 58:35SPEAKER_03: So all the the rats are just a bit confused.
- 58:39SPEAKER_03: And they face it out going, are we getting cheese or are we not?
- 58:41SPEAKER_03: They're like, Yeah, so they put so again Ashley Cole just points at the cheese, points at himself, and then gives you a thumbs up, like what you're doing.
- 58:48SPEAKER_03: Don points at the cheese, does this with his Yeah to say big, a large amount of cheese.
- 58:53SPEAKER_03: And then thumbs up.
- 58:54SPEAKER_03: Thumbs up.
- 58:54SPEAKER_03: And then Ashley squeaks all the rats form together and one of them lifts up a kind of hatch that is it's like a kind of almost like a straw hatch, lifts it up, it's a pipe, and it all s back in the fucking sewers again.
- 59:07SPEAKER_03: Well, it's it's not as the sewers, it's more of a pipe, and it just goes and you're uh riding on the back of Ashley Cole for what feels like at least twenty minutes, and then Ashley turns back to you and gives you a squeak and he gives you the kind of thumbs up as if to be like, You ready?
- 59:23SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 59:24SPEAKER_03: You give him a thumbs up.
- 59:25SPEAKER_03: Oh, I'm nodding.
- 59:26SPEAKER_03: This spider's never nodded harder in its life.
- 59:28SPEAKER_03: You burst out of the pipe as you're bursting it, you f you feel very wet, and that's because you're climbing up through a toilet.
- 59:36SPEAKER_03: If I see an arse here, Lee, if I see a fucking arse here, and just a set of d balls dangling over the top.
- 59:42SPEAKER_03: There's no one on the toilet today, but nobody's there, and then Ashley runs out of the toilet with his whole gang, and you are in the kind of entrance hall, kind of like where the throne is.
- 59:53SPEAKER_03: Oh wow.
- 59:54SPEAKER_03: Uh we are in the fucking palace.
- 59:57SPEAKER_03: And there is a man sitting on the throne, a man that you recognise as Taz.
- 1:00:02SPEAKER_03: Shut the fuck up.
- 1:00:05SPEAKER_03: That's mad.
- 1:00:06SPEAKER_03: That's actually mad.
- 1:00:07SPEAKER_03: Taz, the owner of the Chuckle Bucket, is now the ruler of Never Winter.
- 1:00:11SPEAKER_03: That's fucking insane.
- 1:00:12SPEAKER_03: That's fucking crazy.
- 1:00:14SPEAKER_03: That brings us to the end of this episode.
- 1:00:16SPEAKER_03: Shit the bed.
- 1:00:17SPEAKER_03: Taz.
- 1:00:17SPEAKER_03: So I'm already starting to fucking I was gonna say piece together.
- 1:00:21SPEAKER_03: Let's not be after the horror show of an episode that I just fucking every decision.
- 1:00:25SPEAKER_03: Let's not at the end go, well, I'm already started pieces together.
- 1:00:28SPEAKER_03: But I think so.
- 1:00:29SPEAKER_03: Taz was maybe the reason that we fucking ended up here.
- 1:00:32SPEAKER_03: Well, you'll need to question them in the next episode.
- 1:00:34SPEAKER_03: Oh, and I will be.
- 1:00:35SPEAKER_03: With me and my rat army.
- 1:00:37SPEAKER_03: I've got a lot of questions for this cun.
- 1:00:39SPEAKER_03: Oh, I've got so many questions about the other solo apps though.
- 1:00:42SPEAKER_03: Am I allowed to know what Fanny and Bill are gonna be getting up to?
- 1:00:45SPEAKER_03: Nothing that actually ended up happening there, boys, but I planned for you.
- 1:00:50SPEAKER_03: Ow, fuck.
- 1:00:52SPEAKER_03: I don't know if that's amazing or terrible.
- 1:00:54SPEAKER_03: Yeah, to be fair, it'd be weird you going, I bet, I bet any money is a spider in the sewage making pals with rat armies.
- 1:01:03SPEAKER_03: I'd g I'd guarantee that.
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